Why I've been mia a little bit...

I haven't been able to post daily anymore - I was doing great for a while. I had all intentions of having a TON of stuff pre-posted on my blog (scheduled) for after the baby was born, but she came 2 weeks early. My husband just left for a long time, so we've been busy spending time with him and adjusting to having 4 family members instead of 3.

Lexi is almost 7 weeks now. She's SO mellow! Her sister is in love and wants to hold her/touch her/kiss her all day long. I'm getting sleep at night now! She has cut into my crafting time because she's a cuddler! My first was NOT a cuddler, so having Lexi want to cuddle all the time is kind of nice!

The sketch is from a dt sketch on the Paper Trail Makers blog - loved the sketch and rotated it to work with my photo (photo taken by my friend at SimplyB photos - they all turned out BEAUTIFUL)Supplies
Paper: AC cardstock, Echo Park dots and stripes Candy Shoppe
Accessories: EP dots and stripes candy shoppe stickers

Photo inspiration challenge

We have a new challenge for you at Scrap and stamp this week - to use the following picture as inspiration for your layout (and make sure you use at least one stamp)I LOVED the soft pastel colors in the picture and used that as my page inspiration. I used the sketch from Sketchy Thursday and some photos from a princess/fairy photo shoot at SimplyB photos. The paper is some Cosmo Cricket Earth Love that I had in my stash - I have been starting to use up some of my stash!
Supplies
Stamps: Unity November 09 KOTM - Simply magical
Ink: Tsukineko
Paper: SU cardstock, Cosmo cricket earth love
Accessories: sewing pattern petals - precocious paper (etsy) - This one was from a sampler

Coloring Eggs - Jillibean sketch

I had a few minutes today during nap time (for the little one)/quiet time to put together a layout. Jillibean soup put up a new sketch challenge on their blog - it's a monthly sketch challenge, but if I don't do it when I first see it... then I usually forget and don't finish it!

I used papers from the Pasta Fagioli line - I ordered these a while ago and haven't used them all yet (I need to order more 12x12 Jillibean soon - I hardly have any left) and thought they would work well with the egg coloring photos I have from St. Croix. I also used some Jillibean journaling sprouts from my stash and some alphabean cardstock stickers that I bought a while ago.
Supplies
Paper: AC cardstock, Jillibean soup pasta fagioli
Ink: Tsukineko
Accessories: Jillibean journaling sprouts, alphabean cardstock stickers, MFT jumbo scallop die, MFT perfect petals trio die

happy birthday - cuppie style

I bought this image set a long time ago and I think it's seen ink once before... I played along with a Taylored Expressions sketch 2 weeks ago with a new stamp I had won, so decided to play along this time around. Cuppie is from the Sweet Celebrations Stamp set from Taylored Expressions - this sketch is challenge #143 on their blog. I used some MME paper - Life of the party (Lime twist collections)Supplies
Stamps: Sweet Celebrations
Ink: Tsukineko
Paper: MME Lime Twist Life of the Party
Accessories: Copics, MFT jumbo ric rac die

you make me smile

Loving all the sketches each week from My Favorite things. I colored this new Pure Innocent girl - Make a splash with my copics and paired her with some Echo Park Summer days (I love their 6x6 paper pads now - perfect for cards)
supplies
Stamps: MFT Make a splash
Ink: Tsukineko
Paper: Echo Park Summer days
Accessories: summer days stickers, copics, MFT ric rac die

ribbit

It's been a bit busy at my house. Getting dh ready to leave for a while and the baby gets really fussy during my normal crafting time... In fact, tonight is the first time I've uploaded pictures from my cameras (point and shoot and nice camera) - I had over 300 pictures just from the past 2 weeks. Updating both blogs while the girls are enjoying some quality sister time tonight

Had some fun with the sketchy Thursday sketch and some basic grey paper. I also did this for a challenge on the paper Trail makers blog - Re-run #2 - to have 4-6 photos on a single page layoutSupplies
Stamps: Unity frame this alpha
Ink: Tsukineko
Paper: AC cardstock, BG pyrus

HB2U

I really had fun with the sketch this week on SCS - WSC#28. I used a new to me stamp You are Unrepeatable - such a CUTE image (love that ipod!).

Busy week here! Getting dh ready for a long trip. Sightseeing dinner cruise with dh and the baby (Abby loves having a babysitter), shipping fish to family, church activity, etc.. Hope I have some time to craft! Supplies
Stamps: MFT ALM You are unrepeatable
Ink: Tsukineko
Paper: Basic Grey Out of Print
Accessories: Copics, copic spica glitter pen